The Wealth of Nations_ Books 4-5 - Adam Smith [353]
Gold and silver, the prices of, how affected by the increase of the quantity of the metals, 293. Are commodities that naturally seek the best market, 294. Are metals of the least value among the poorest nations, 295. The increase in the quantity of, by means of wealth and improvement, has no tendency to diminish their value, 296. The annual consumption of these metals very considerable, 312. Annual importation of, into Spain and Portugal, 313. Are not likely to multiply beyond the demand, 315. The durability of, the cause of the steadiness of their price, ib. On what circumstances the quantity of, in every particular country, depends, 342. The low value of these metals in a country, no evidence of its wealth, nor their high value of its poverty, 346. If not employed at home, will be sent abroad notwithstanding all prohibitions, 439. The reason why European nations have studied to accumulate these metals, 7. Commercial arguments in favour of their exportation, 8. These, and all other commodities, are mutually the prices of each other, 11, 12. The quantity of, in every country, regulated by the effectual demand, ib. Why the prices of these metals do not fluctuate so much as those of other commodities, 13. To preserve a due quantity of, in a country, no proper object of attention for the government, ib. The accumulated gold and silver in a country distinguished into three parts, 17. A great quantity of bullion alternately exported and imported for the purposes of foreign trade, 20. Annual amount of these metals imported into Spain and Portugal, 21. The importation of, not the principal benefit derived from foreign trade, 24. The value of, how affected by the discovery of the American mines, ib. And by the passage round the Cape of Good Hope to the East Indies, 25. Effect of the annual exportation of silver to the East Indies, 26. The commercial means pursued to increase the quantity of these metals in a country, 27–8. Bullion, how received and paid at the bank of Amsterdam,58. Atwhatprices,59–60. Note. A tradingcountry without mines, not likely to be exhausted by an annual exportation of these metals, 69. The value of, in Spain and Portugal, depreciated by restraining the exportation of them, 89. Are not imported for the purposes of plate or coin but for foreign trade, 128. The search after mines of, the most ruinous of all projects, 143. Are valuable, because scarce, and difficult to be procured, 144. Gorgias, evidence of the wealth he acquired by teaching, 238.
Government, civil, indispensably necessary for the security of private property, 298. Subordination in society, by what means introduced, ib. Inequality of fortune introduces civil government for its preservation, 302. The administration of justice, a source of revenue, in early times, ib. Why government ought not to have the management of turnpikes, 315. Nor of other public works, 319. Want of parsimony during peace, imposes a necessity of contracting debts to carry on a war, 508–9. Must support a regular administration of justice to cause manufactures and commerce to flourish, 510. Origin of a national debt, 510–11. Progression of public debts, 511. War, why generally agreeable to the people, 520.
Governors, political, the greatest spendthrifts in society, 446.
Grasses, artificial, tend to reduce the price of butcher’s meat, 255.
Graziers, subject to monopolies obtained by manufacturers to their prejudice, 240.
Greece, foreign trade prohibited in several of the ancient states of, 270. Military exercises, a part of general education, 284. Soldiers not a distinct profession, in, ib. Course of education in the republics of, 362. The morals of the Greeks inferior to those of the Romans, 363. Schools of the philosophers and rhetoricians, 364. Law no science among the Greeks, 365. Courts of justice, ib. The martial spirit of the people, how supported, 373.
Greek colonies, how distinguished